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ff "V TT TT ff x u I H TT OREM, UTAH IEGE Special Election Issue Monday, April 30, 1990 The College Times will bring the final election results to you on Friday, May 4 in a special issue. There will be no issue Wednesday US party disqualified by Election Committee By Maci Nielsen Assistant Editor United Studentbody (US) party, (Kevin DeAdder President, Erik Laver Academics Vice-President, Tammy Henrie Activities Vice-President) was disqualified from the student government elections by decision of the Election Committee on Thursday, April 26, due to "violation of campaign rules and for misrepresentation."The Election Committee received five grievances filed against US just before the meeting started at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday. One grievance, filed by Erick Hacking, Business Manager of the College Times, dealt with loss of revenues suffered by the newspaper. One advertiser dropped further sales with the College Times, choosing to donate funds to student elections instead. Hack! lg, who filed other grievances as a concerned student, deliniated threj grievances against the US party. He brought up concerns about DeAdder's misrepresentation to the Development office and local businesses; US' campaigning before the designated hour, and, US' tampering with Focus campaign materials. The fifth grievance against US was filed by the business J. Riggings. (See related story on page 3) J. Riggings employees stated that Laver purchased four cardigan sweaters from them for US campaign pictures. Two days later, Laver returned the sweaters. When asked if they had been used Laver said no. "Laver said they weren't going to use the sweaters in their pictures. We believed them until we saw their campaign pictures," said a spokesperson for J. Riggings. When US was asked to respond to the grievance, Henrie, visibly upset, began to speak but s ' t ft"4! it nl l ? 0 A 1 ff ' ; . .. .. c.,.. ' I ; - US campaign members strip participation in the elections was told by Laver to leave the room if she were going to cry, and to let him explain. She refused and said, "If this means I'll have to drop the campaign, then I will. I will not be ruined because of this." Henrie said she had not been informed by her running mates of the actions they had taken in the situation and that her name had been used without her Photo by Mad NMmk all election paraphernalia advertising their candidacy after being disqualified from by the Election Committee. knowledge. DeAdder and US campaign manager Kena Mathews claimed they also knew nothing about it. "I'm guilty," said Laver. "We had the sweaters on for about 20 minutes, and had no intentions of using the pictures but they turned out. If I can make a deal with J. Riggings I will. It wasn't my intention to defraud anyone," said Laver. He also apologized and said Henrie's name was clear from the situation because she knew nothing about it Henrie later turned in a formal resignation as a candidate of the US party for student body elections. Laver said US' intent was to find something they liked for their campaign pictures and to keep for personal use. The sweaters were returned before the pictures came back because they did not think those particular pictures were going to turn out He said the per- US disqualified Continued on page 6

ff "V TT TT ff x u I H TT OREM, UTAH IEGE Special Election Issue Monday, April 30, 1990 The College Times will bring the final election results to you on Friday, May 4 in a special issue. There will be no issue Wednesday US party disqualified by Election Committee By Maci Nielsen Assistant Editor United Studentbody (US) party, (Kevin DeAdder President, Erik Laver Academics Vice-President, Tammy Henrie Activities Vice-President) was disqualified from the student government elections by decision of the Election Committee on Thursday, April 26, due to "violation of campaign rules and for misrepresentation."The Election Committee received five grievances filed against US just before the meeting started at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday. One grievance, filed by Erick Hacking, Business Manager of the College Times, dealt with loss of revenues suffered by the newspaper. One advertiser dropped further sales with the College Times, choosing to donate funds to student elections instead. Hack! lg, who filed other grievances as a concerned student, deliniated threj grievances against the US party. He brought up concerns about DeAdder's misrepresentation to the Development office and local businesses; US' campaigning before the designated hour, and, US' tampering with Focus campaign materials. The fifth grievance against US was filed by the business J. Riggings. (See related story on page 3) J. Riggings employees stated that Laver purchased four cardigan sweaters from them for US campaign pictures. Two days later, Laver returned the sweaters. When asked if they had been used Laver said no. "Laver said they weren't going to use the sweaters in their pictures. We believed them until we saw their campaign pictures," said a spokesperson for J. Riggings. When US was asked to respond to the grievance, Henrie, visibly upset, began to speak but s ' t ft"4! it nl l ? 0 A 1 ff ' ; . .. .. c.,.. ' I ; - US campaign members strip participation in the elections was told by Laver to leave the room if she were going to cry, and to let him explain. She refused and said, "If this means I'll have to drop the campaign, then I will. I will not be ruined because of this." Henrie said she had not been informed by her running mates of the actions they had taken in the situation and that her name had been used without her Photo by Mad NMmk all election paraphernalia advertising their candidacy after being disqualified from by the Election Committee. knowledge. DeAdder and US campaign manager Kena Mathews claimed they also knew nothing about it. "I'm guilty," said Laver. "We had the sweaters on for about 20 minutes, and had no intentions of using the pictures but they turned out. If I can make a deal with J. Riggings I will. It wasn't my intention to defraud anyone," said Laver. He also apologized and said Henrie's name was clear from the situation because she knew nothing about it Henrie later turned in a formal resignation as a candidate of the US party for student body elections. Laver said US' intent was to find something they liked for their campaign pictures and to keep for personal use. The sweaters were returned before the pictures came back because they did not think those particular pictures were going to turn out He said the per- US disqualified Continued on page 6